Title: WILL THE LOCATIONS OF UNUSUAL VEHICULAR AND DRIVER BEHAVIOUR TURN INTO TRAFFIC ACCIDENT HOTSPOTS
Abstract: Though some sections of motorways and multi-lane roads have been built in the last few years in Hungary, a good portion of the domestic and transit road traffic is still served by two-lane roads. Some of these roads are burdened with intense and relatively slow truck and lorry traffic. The traffic safety situation is aggravated by the impatience and carelessness of a sadly high number of drivers. These factors render the mentioned roads extremely unsafe. It is questionable whether the conventional measurement approaches - including also the fixed-camera measurements - are adequate for traffic safety monitoring purposes and whether they can provide sufficient insight into the traffic safety situation. Building upon the experience with camera-based traffic lane tracking systems, relying on reports on the applicability of surrogate safety measures for crash-prediction, and on the application of omni-directional vision systems in road vehicles, a mobile omni- directional camera-based approach of assessing the safety of the mentioned roads is outlined and motivated herein.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-09-22
Language: en
Type: article
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